Naif Brothers Claim Qatar’s First Asian Games Padel Gold

Brothers Mashari and Rashed Naif won Qatar’s first Asian Games men’s padel gold on 3 October 2026, beating Malaysia’s Christian Chin and Aidan Yunus 6–3, 6–1 in Nagoya.

The top seeds completed the tournament without dropping a set across four played matches.

They opened with a 6–1, 6–0 win over Kuwait’s Abdulaziz Redha and Fouad Behbehani, then defeated the UAE’s Fares Aljanahi and Abdulla Alabdulla 6–2, 6–3 in the quarter-finals.

A 6–4, 6–2 semi-final victory over Iran’s Hami Golestan and Arya Roghani took the brothers into the gold-medal match. Malaysia could not interrupt that straight-sets run.

The title put Qatar first on the men’s medal table at padel’s Asian Games debut. Chin and Yunus took silver, while Iran’s Farsad Shahi and Amirmohammad Jamshidi won bronze.